UNIVERSITY OF OREGON College of Education: Behavior
Research and Demonstration Center
on School-Wide Behavior Support
George Sugai and Robert H. Horner
 The
Research and Demonstration Center on School-Wide Behavior
Support is one of two research centers investigating behavior
intervention models for students in Grades K-3. The center
aims to investigate the effects of school-wide behavior
support on multiple levels, including the school discipline
system and children's social and academic functioning.
The center is targeting children who manifest serious behaviors
that may result in present and future discipline problems
and/or children who are identified as having difficulty
learning to read. Participants include 90 elementary schools
from multiple states.
The center's primary, secondary, and tertiary interventions are as follows:
- At the primary level, a leadership team implements
a unified school-wide behavior support system, using Positive Behavior
Support and other evidence-supported interventions, at the classroom,
non-classroom, and individual student levels.
- At the secondary level, school or
research staff implement the First Step to Success program
with kindergarten students. The First Step to Success
program involves screening all kindergarten and first-grade
students for symptoms of antisocial behavior patterns;
implementing a classroom intervention to monitor and
correct disruptive behaviors; and implementing a home
intervention to help caregivers foster children's school
adjustment. In addition, staff implement group social
skills instruction for students displaying behavior problems
that do not respond to the primary intervention. Teachers
of these students develop and implement new instructional
strategies (e.g., increase opportunities to respond,
increase positive statements for appropriate behavior).
- At the tertiary level, functional assessment will
be used to develop individualized interventions for students with
the most chronic behavior problems.
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